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1for. Incalculable wealth rolled along for days on the river and the Indians were free to pick and choose. The little Indians whooped along the bank with their loose, single shirt half the time over their heads and never covering their nakedness.

"Nanich! nanich!" (see! see!) they shouted, and "Hiyu supalil! hiyu supalil!" (plenty flour! plenty flour!) dancing up and down in their excitement and occasionally making a wild plunge toward the river to save some article that floated near shore, occasionally, too, falling in and being pulled out and slapped by the watchful, excited mothers.

It was almost incredible what came down the river. There was no rattlesnake country within 150 miles, and yet an old log house came floating by alive with rattlesnakes. Bales of hay